The Roman Emperors

A chronological list of the Roman Emperors. Set to the music of "Orpheus in the Underworld" (The Can-Can)

[Focusyn]

Ummm, I've never drank lead before, thank you very much.

[Aethernaut]

I came back to this since i loved this song when i was 12 and really into roman history. This is incredibly nostalgic for me

[WhittyWhitts]

Errors:
0:16 Julius Caesar was Augustus' great-uncle, not uncle. There's a difference.
0:18 Caligula likely did drink a lot of lead, but the pipes in Rome were made of lead so that's not at all surprising.
0:25 Nero likely did not cause the great fire of Rome, it was probably an accident.
0:39 You are referring to the five good emperors, (the five who made the land increase in span), but most of them did not expand the borders of the Roman Empire at all. Trajan and Antoninus Pius were the only ones to expand the Roman Empire. Trajan conquered Dacia and Mesopotamia, and Antoninus Pius went a bit further north into Britain. Meanwhile, Hadrian actually gave up Mesopotamia.
0:57 You show a bust of Antoninus Pius when referring to Septimius Severus. The two aren't even from the same dynasty.
1:28 You show a map of the Roman Empire at its height in 117 CE, but Rome had already given up Dacia and Mesopotamia by Diocletian's time.
1:32 No, emperors were not Byzantine yet. The earliest you could claim that is 330 AD, when Constantine built Constantinople on the site of Byzantium and moved the capitol there. You're talking about an emperor who ruled from 284-305 CE. Plus, the "Byzantines" didn't even call themselves that, they still called themselves Romans.

[avellan]

Sources: Wikipedia lol and you're not ashamed 😂; thanks for the video, making the learning fun is a noble job

[pinocchisnose]

I know it's said a lot but this video deserves more views

[CeridwenLynne]

Great job! But now I can’t seem to get this song out of my head.

[vertxxgg]

Great video ..i keep a large numismatic colecc of roman coins since the days of uncle

[yahsararelhebrewagency]

@0:41, I love when people know when to put in Excerpts! muaHAHA

[Lordboring]

Truly sad, that some "next big hit" could disappear.

[weslynkris]

Wow! Very original and fun to watch. 👍🏻

[gottaluv_dxniel]

Thanks man this helped my students alot

[jl]

Very jaunty but you're missing quite a few names during the 3rd Century BC and everybody after Diocletian.

[RexoryByzaboo]

Please do Byzantine Emperors song. It would be awesome!

[AdriatheBwitch]

Well, its not bad song but i dont get why you dondt say any emperors between Alexander Severus and Aurelian while you had Galienus or Claudius II which were good emperors and did actually notable stuff to make the empire endure. And i dont get why you stop at Diocletian i mean ok Diocletian started the Dominate but its still the roman empire it just evolved into something to hold on during 1700 more years since the principate was not that great

[Plastic-Bottle]

so funny need to watch this for school

[dillondebruv]

Make a new one with the Byzantine Emperors (after Diocletian).

[rhonaceandres]

I know all of the youtubers love Roman history and i was an historian and tactician i know all both of them

[HannibalUvvU]

Hold it. The Diocletian part is wrong. He createt the tetrarchie. He didnt split Rome in two. That happend after Theodosius.

[andreshone]

Is there a software that this uses for the animation? Which software do they use, can someone tell me?

[pyrphoros]

235-270 they could not even bother since the average reign of an emperor sank from 12 years to 2. xD